-NDTV.com The high court on April 26 said the Election Commission "should probably be booked for murder" for not stopping political rallies for Tamil Nadu election amid a Covid spike New Delhi: The Election Commission has complained to the Supreme Court against what it called "blatantly disparaging remarks" by the Madras High Court over holding polls amid the deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The high court on April 26 said the...
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After Court's "Booked For Murder" Remark, Election Commission Pushes Back -Arvind Gunasekar
-NDTV.com The Election Commission said it is aggrieved with media report of the Madras High Court's oral observations that it is "singularly responsible for the situation prevalent today" and that the Election Commission should face murder charges. New Delhi: The Election Commission today requested the Madras High Court to restrain the media from reporting on oral observations, days after the court's sharp remarks on "murder charges" on officials of the election body...
More »'Justify Or Make Amends': High Court's Delhi Oxygen Query To Centre -Anindita Sanyal
-NDTV.com Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra were given more oxygen than they asked for, the Delhi High Court said. New Delhi: States like Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra were given more oxygen than they asked for, but Arvind Kejriwal government's repeated appeals were not granted, the Delhi High Court said today, questioning the Centre about the rationale involved. The Central government has to either show justification for this or "make amends", said the two-judge...
More »Uncritical support for Modi paved the way for India’s COVID-19 crisis -Vidya Krishnan
-CaravanMagazine.in India is a veritable chamber of horrors right now. Every day appears to mark a new record-highest number of daily cases, with the country witnessing 3,52,991 new COVID-19 cases and 2,812 deaths on 25 April. Patients are dying due to a lack of oxygen in hospitals—at least 24 patients died in a hospital in Nashik, in Maharashtra, on 21 April, and another 25 died in Delhi, the national capital, two...
More »Even as Uttarakhand Reels From Sharp Spike in COVID Cases, Char Dham Yatra To Go Ahead
-TheWire.in Last week, the Uttarakhand high court had observed that the pilgrimage cannot be allowed to turn into another Kumbh Mela. New Delhi: Despite the 1800% increase in Uttarkhand’s active COVID-19 cases in the period coinciding with the Kumbh Mela, the state government has given its green signal to hold the annual Char Dham yatra from May 14. The state government has agreed to allow the pilgrimage to four shrines – Yamunotri, Gangotri,...
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